Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey

Informationen zum Autor Banu Eligür has written extensively on Turkish domestic and foreign policy and taught courses on Political Islam and Civil Society in the Middle East at Brandeis University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she now lives in Turkey and conducts field research on Turkish nationalism. Klappentext Explains why political Islam! which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s! has now achieved governing power. Zusammenfassung Explains why political Islam! which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s! has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory! the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism in Turkey by analyzing the increasing electoral strength of four successive Islamist political parties. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Emergence of the Islamist social movement in Turkey; 3. The Turkish-Islamic synthesis and the Islamist social movement; 4. The malfunctioning state and consolidation of the Islamist social movement; 5. Organizational dynamics of the Islamist social movement; 6. The soft intervention of 1997 and the Islamist social movement; 7. The Islamist social movement today and prospects for the future.

Product details

• Authors: Banu Eligur, Banu Eligür
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521760218
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76021-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Turkey, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Political structure and processes, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Türkiye / Turkey